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It doesn't take a whole day to vote.
The convenience to vote or lack thereof depends solely on your local and state jurisdictions. No blanket statements can be made.
Fine, it doesn't take the vast majority of the population a whole day to vote.
That depends on where you live and how artificially inconvenient voting has been made on top of the complexities of one's personal life to begin with.
But, more importantly, if you lived through the last eight years and you're a wage earner, you know with certainty that voting doesn't make any material change in your life, so you're probably not going to miss out on a day's pay in order to vote for people that you know definitively do not care if you or your family starve.
I'm a wage earner, elections effect my life. Votes effect election results.
That must be why tens of millions of Americans can't afford a sudden $400 expense, a fact that came out in the 2016 election and has only worsened since.
Because elections totally affect your life, just not positively.
Elections where the rightwing party wins and continues to move us farther rightward makes my life worse.
Swathes of people making false equivalences between fascists and liberals, helping give us that election result, makes my life worse.
Unfortunately for us both, for at least the last 44 years, that's both parties. It's called the Ratchet Effect.
Look, I don't like centrists, center right, or regular ass conservatives.
But if you tell me you sat out of an election that effected whether fascists win or not I wont consider you an ally and wish upon you the full brunt of results that you failed to vote against.
I hope that everyone in this country (even if that includes me) suffers intense and miserable economic pain for letting him win. We deserve it.
And its not even for the sake of a lesson, my emotions have lead me into a state of nearly pure spite politics after November 2024.
I'll admit I was saving up to leave but my own financial set backs have more or less likely cemented my fate of being stuck among the idiots that live in my country.
Oh boy, wait until you hear about the blue areas of many red states. It's intentional